From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: autoload cookies for defcustoms Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:36:22 -0800 Message-ID: References: <2DC911234A9B4A6ABD34459FB8C26C1C@us.oracle.com><380EF0C7255E4FBC86DB13B434D13582@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264451821 29090 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2010 20:37:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 21:36:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NZVg2-0001pF-9D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZVg3-0000G7-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZVfx-0000Fy-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZVfs-0000FE-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58923 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZVfs-0000FB-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:22499) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZVfs-00088e-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o0PKabZB017602 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:36:38 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o0PKaan6027756; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:36:36 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt018.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1473075121264451792; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:36:32 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.160.254) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:36:31 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acqd04ZHYSKnzfwqRvyPXe7mWWbIzAAKkqKQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4B5E00D5.0060:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120391 Archived-At: > AFAIK, `purecopy' has nothing to do with it, except that *if* > a defcustom is preloaded (either because it's in a preloaded file or > because it has an autoload cookie), then it may be desirable > to purecopy parts of its default value. But it should never be a > reason to decide whether to autoload or not. Very good to hear. However, looking at the options that actually use `purecopy' and have autoload cookies, I have doubts that that guideline has been respected. It _seems_ that `purecopy' has been added here and there and _consequently_ an autoload cookie was then added.